Webinar: 8 Trends in Health Care and How They Relate to Palliative Care

Health care has experienced a number of key shifts since the year 2000. Driven by patients and others dissatisfied with the status quo, commercial pressures coming from corporate responses to inflation, rapidly changing technology, and more, palliative care is seeing these shifts as well.

To address some of these major health care trends, Dr. Wells Shoemaker will walk us through 8 of the most impactful changes and how they specifically relate to and affect palliative care.

F. Wells Shoemaker, MDIndependent Healthcare Consultant
Board Secretary, Coalition for Compassionate Care of California
Wells Shoemaker practiced pediatrics on the Central Coast for 25 years, devoting the subsequent 20 to quality improvement on an expanding statewide scale. He served as CAPG’s medical director for 8 years and co-chair of the California Quality Collaborative for 9 years. He participated in Governor Brown’s Let’s Get Healthy California (LGHC) taskforce in 2012, and concurrently launched the California Advanced Primary Care Institute. Dr. Shoemaker then served in 2013 as co-lead of the follow up LGHC workgroup charged with ‘Redesigning the health system for safe, effective, patient centered care.’ He has been a member of the CCCC Board of Directors since 2012, currently serving as Secretary.

Coalition for Compassionate Care

The Coalition for Compassionate Care of California is an interdisciplinary collaborative of regional and statewide organizations and individuals dedicated to promoting high-quality, compassionate care for everyone who is seriously ill or nearing the end of life.